Hello? Lost connection to the house Wi-Fi as soon as you’ve stepped out to the pool? Classic. Your Wi-Fi connection and the great outdoors are a tale as old as time. From a Wi-Fi signal that can’t identify you’re just in your back garden to your off-site work-from-home office that you need to hotspot yourself in. It’s frustrating and it’s outdated.
The average outdoor Wi-Fi signal connection has a reach of 50-100 metres, and even then, we’ve all experienced broken signals and buffering through environmental obstructions. Standard Wi-Fi connections were designed for indoor use and often experience problems when multiple devices are connected simultaneously or there are obstacles between the connection points.
With Wi-Fi HaLow®, you can trust your Wi-Fi signal to work seamlessly from 1.5km away. It is designed to penetrate through materials more efficiently, ensuring your Wi-Fi connection is strong from a distance. At Morse Micro, we’ve researched what causes long-range Wi-Fi to be unsuccessful, so we can bring you a product that breaks through the barriers.
Traditional Wi-Fi Routers
Obstacles and materials pose a threat to standard Wi-Fi connections as they operate at higher frequencies, so the signal is easily blocked by walls, trees and adverse weather conditions. This makes navigating your Wi-Fi signal, even throughout your home, a challenge due to areas of poor coverage. In homes or offices, where multiple devices need to be connected to the Wi-Fi, traditional Wi-Fi networks may experience issues with dropped signals and lag, as they struggle to support multiple connections. Furthermore, when multiple devices connect to a traditional Wi-Fi network, they can drain the battery quickly, which limits the network’s performance. Traditional Wi-Fi networks can operate under WPA or WPA2, where general security can be quite poor and prone to getting hacked, which puts all Wi-Fi users at risk of safety and data breaches.
How have previous developments improved long-range outdoor Wi-Fi?
Wi-Fi connections and signals have undergone significant research and revision to improve user success, particularly the challenge of outdoor range. So, how have they made progress?
- Frequency: A key focus for improving outdoor Wi-Fi range has been the barrier of materials, so some revisions have consisted of developing networks with lower frequencies to facilitate the penetration of materials.
- Mesh Networking: Mesh networks allow nodes to be placed outdoors to increase Wi-Fi coverage across large areas.
- High-Gain Antennas: These directional antennas helped to increase the outdoor network range through multiple links, which made Wi-Fi connectivity and signals stronger.
- Advanced Modulation: Some attempts included improving connection stability at a longer distance, though at a lower speed. This was done by making alterations to modulation techniques, such as OFDM in Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n).
- Ethernet Connection: With outdoor access points connected through Ethernet (PoE), devices could be connected to outdoor locations for wider Wi-Fi coverage.
What Complications Remained?
Although these measures were implemented to improve outdoor Wi-Fi connectivity and range, they were still limited by interference. The outdoor Wi-Fi range was still limited to a few hundred meters out, and performance was challenged by obstacles and a weakened signal. So, though the connection reached further distances, the signal was still impacted, and the Wi-Fi performance was affected when connected to devices.
Wi-Fi HaLow: Transforming your Experience
Our Wi-Fi HaLow® was designed to break through all previous challenges and limitations to your outdoor Wi-Fi connectivity issues. It operates in the 850-950MHz range and connects larger numbers of IoT devices at longer distances whilst preserving power. Wi-Fi HaLow® has changed the game, offering superior and low-power performance. Designed for easy implementation and integration, it’s your solution to a strong connection that works at low power for optimum energy efficiency and performance.
How Does it Improve Wi-Fi Range?
Wi-Fi HaLow® can be used in a variety of cases:
- You can sync your Smart home with an optimised connection for your security cameras, home automation and smart locks, so everything is operated through one safe point.
- Improve your Infrastructure connection with better penetration through walls and structures.
- For industrial warehouses or logistics businesses, communication can be improved with Wi-Fi HaLow® as your Wi-Fi connection.
- To protect your Enterprise, Wi-Fi HaLow® can help to secure your building access and your security camera system.
- In Smart Cities where smart meters and information kiosks are operated, Wi-Fi HaLow® can guarantee fast, reliable and long-range signal.
Get the most out of your network connection, like never before, with Wi-Fi HaLow®.
What are the benefits?
- Long-range Connectivity: Wi-Fi HaLow® range extends over 1.5km whilst using lower power frequencies that facilitate the penetration through walls and other interfering obstacles.
- IoT Device Connection: This eliminates the previous need for mesh networks as Wi-Fi HaLow® is your singular access point for over 8,000 IoT device connections.
- Energy Efficient: It is designed with ultra-low power consumption to enable devices to run on batteries for much longer.
- Increased Security: Wi-Fi HaLow® operates on the latest Wi-Fi WPA3 security. It is encrypted with Wi-Fi EasyConnect and Wi-Fi EnhancedOpen, and can withstand further encryptions.
Change the Face of Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi HaLow®
Long-range outdoor Wi-Fi starts with Wi-Fi HaLow®, which has broken the mould of traditional Wi-Fi by offering a solution to weak signal and connection that you can’t trust. The future of IoT technology is here with our industry-leading Wi-Fi HaLow®.
Are you ready to increase your outdoor connectivity reach with a high-intelligence product that overcomes the limitations of your outdated traditional Wi-Fi? Get started with Wi-Fi HaLow®; The answer to all your problems. If you have any further questions about Morse Micro or Wi-Fi HaLow®, try our FAQ’s page.